“he”/“him” A Canadian Prairie Mennonite from the '70s & '80s, a Preacher’s Kid, slowly recovering from a hemorrhagic stroke. I am not — yet — in a 12-Step Program.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Aretha Franklin
"She don't remember The Queen of Soul..."
Also: please check out what pdb highlights from Sam Moyn's speech at the human rights center at the University of Chicago.
Just getting caught up a bit, here, after a few weeks under water. Thanks for link!
Also thank you for the Aretha! I was briefly digging up YouTube goodies like this one on Bacharach’s passing earlier in the year. Didn’t get to linger with that nearly as much as I would like. Dionne Warwick’s ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ was within the range of the accessible and acceptable for my radio listening (on Baltimore’s WLIF) as a young kid, mid–late-’70s, and I was pretty fond of it. I think I actually had an idea of who Warwick was, very vague. Aretha Franklin I really didn’t have any awareness of at all until probably late teens, post-high-school. Only a good many years later still could I put either in context halfway appropriately.
Just getting caught up a bit, here, after a few weeks under water. Thanks for link!
ReplyDeleteAlso thank you for the Aretha! I was briefly digging up YouTube goodies like this one on Bacharach’s passing earlier in the year. Didn’t get to linger with that nearly as much as I would like. Dionne Warwick’s ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ was within the range of the accessible and acceptable for my radio listening (on Baltimore’s WLIF) as a young kid, mid–late-’70s, and I was pretty fond of it. I think I actually had an idea of who Warwick was, very vague. Aretha Franklin I really didn’t have any awareness of at all until probably late teens, post-high-school. Only a good many years later still could I put either in context halfway appropriately.
De nada, man!
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